Motif
equal self-injury behind opposed moral labels
equal_self_injury_behind_opposed_moral_labels
A motif of the Duality and Cosmic Opposition family, within the sub-family Virtue and vice, truth and falsehood, and social reversal. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer CHAPTER VII. / HOW TO GOVERN. / CHAPTER VIII. / JOINED TOES.; lines 4087-4137 confidence: high
The passage says the deaths under discussion were not the same, but that the injury to life and nature was the same in each case.
The passage says that deaths judged noble or low by the world are alike in their injury to life and nature, using Robber Chê and Poh I as examples.
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